Improvement in door-catches



, Letters Patent No. 109,342, dated November 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN no'oR-cArcHE's.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I; ROBERT V. IHILLIIjs, ot' Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawatomie and State ot' Iowa, have in rented a Door-Catch, of which the following is a specification. I Y' The nature of my inveutiou consists in th e eon1 bination ot a rubber bumper. or pad placed in the een ter of a four-armed spring made of suitable size and shape to grasp the knob ot a door when opened..

Figure l represents a vertical section ot' my invention, showinga door-knob inclosed.

Figure 2 represent-s a perspective vie\r, 'aud Figure 3, a plan View.

I fasten transversely upon the wall, aga-inst which the door swings, two-pliable lsprings made of silver, brass, steei, or other 4p liahle material, of length and shape tol correspond with the door-knob, and so bent y and placed that theknob, as it swings around against the arms of the spring, will be caught and held vby vthem until it is desired to ciose the door.

rubber pad, circularin form, through which and through the center of the spring-is a sc1'ew,firmly fastening rboth to the wall.

The ends Ot' the spring are slightly bent Outward, so as to readily receive the .knob as it coines to the w'all.

*InY the accompanying drawinge represents the door-knob;

b, the India-rubber pad;

c, the catch;

d, the screw; and

e, the wall.

l claim as my invention- A door-catch, made of pliable springs, e, fastened to the wall hya screw, d, passing through an India-rubber pad, b, substantially as above described.

ROBERT V. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses: A. S. BECK, D. G. BLOOMER.

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